Hello once again. I just want to say that I still can't believe that this trip is almost over. Tomorrow is our last class and our closing party. On Friday most of the group is leaving and then Saturday I'll be catching my plane in the morning. It's all so exciting and sad at the same time. The good news is that we are still having a lot of fun as a group as the trip is coming to a close.
Today we took a day trip to Hallstatt. We had to be on the bus at 8:30 this morning and then we set off on our trip. The drive lasted about 90 minutes, but most of us were tired enough to sleep the whole time. On the way to Hallstatt we stopped at some ice caves which were naturally carved by flowing water. In order to get to the caves you have to ride up the side of a mountain suspended in a cable car. Usually I do okay on ski lifts and other similar means of transportation, but today I was rather nervous on the way up. It wasn't so bad looking ahead of the car, since it sill appeared that you weren't that high off of the ground. Looking behind the car was a completely different story. Looking behind the car made you feel like you were at least 100 feet off of the ground and that if you were to fall it would be quite painful. Luckily, the ride only lasted a few minutes and then all of our nerves were calm when we finally made it back on land. After a short hike up a mountain path we came to the entrance to the ice caves. Another group came up shortly after, and then we all went in the ice caves and met our tour guide. The tour was really interesting and the caves were amazing to see. Our tour guide gave the tour in both German and English, which was kind of nice in a way. He would say everything in German, and then English. This meant that I could try to understand him the first time that he spoke, and then when he switched to English I could see how much I understood. Aside from missing a few words here and there I generally understood what he was saying, which is always a nice feeling. The only thing that I didn't like about the ice caves was that there was no flash photography allowed, which means that it was almost impossible to get a good photograph of anything inside. But, other than that, the caves were a lot of fun. The return trip on the cable car was a lot quicker too, which made everyone less nervous than the first time.
We got back on our bus and drove to Hallstatt, which is a nice little town built right on the coast of a lake. In fact, some of the buildings and roads are actually held up by stilts that are in the water. We had almost 2 hours of free time there, which was rather nice, except for the fact that it rained(well really it poured) the entire time. We basically just walked around, went in a few shops, and visited one of the churches in the town. The main attraction in the church is an altar made our of bones that has over 1200 skulls in it. The altar was originally made because there was no more room left in the graveyards. What the people would do was they would bury a body, and after 10 years the bones would be dug up because they were done decaying. The bones were left in sunlight for weeks in order to bleach the bones and then the skull had the owner's name painted on it along with decorations such as flowers or ivy. Then the skulls were added to the altar. After visiting the altar, we made our way back to the bus and that was the end of our visit to Hallstatt. The ride home had just as many sleeping OU students as the ride there did.
Overall, the day was one of the more fun trips that we have taken. I just wish that the weather would have been better in Hallstatt. Since it is on the lake there are a bunch of activities involving the lake that you can do such as rent boats or conoes or sit in a cafe along the coast. The weather in Salzburg stayed sunny for most of the day until early evening when the clouds in Hallstatt finally caught up with us again. It has been raining since then so it is nice and cool and the bugs are finally staying away for an evening. When it's too hot here you have to open the windows due to lack of a/c, and this means that about 30 bugs fly into your room each night.
The rest of the night after the trip was nothing too special. I took a nap when we came back, ate dinner, did dishes, and then visited people in their rooms. It seems like I was one of the only people to get all of the homework done ahead of time. This was disappointing since no one wanted to do anything tonight since they were scrambling to get all of their work done. It was nice to be able to relax though.
Tomorrow really should be an exciting day. I'm hoping for nice weather so that I can go to the altstadt after our class in the morning. After I pick up a few things, I should be all set to come home. I haven't started to pack up anything yet, but everyone else seems to be packing already. It's so sad to see. It's a reminder that the trip really is almost over. Seeing everything packed up just seems so final. It wouldn't be that bad, but there are a few people who aren't going back to OU next year either because of graduation or transferring to another school. It will just be sad to see them go, but hopefully we can keep in touch.
And that's about all I have for now. Sorry that this started to get a little sappy at the end. I am realy excited to come home, just sad to leave a lot behind at the same time. Talk to you all again soon!
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Monday, June 2, 2008
Great Weekend
I have some extra time right now, so I figured that I'd hop on here and write a quick post. It's the last week in Salzburg, and I'm both excited and extremely sad to be leaving. I figure that in a few years from now I can always make a return trip here. Who knows, maybe my career will even bring me back here. I'm relieved right now, because I'm finished with all of my work for the rest of the quarter (I think) which means that the rest of this is going to be smooth sailing.
This weekend ended up being a lot of fun for me. Friday was spent in Munich again, only this time I went there with JJ. We ended up having a great day. We even found two random people to ride with us on our group ticket, which means that we got to travel to Munich and back and use the subways for 8,50. I spent 3,00 on food and another 2,00 on a drink, which means that I spent 13,50 for the entire day, and was still able to have a blast.
The rest of the weekend was spent getting homework done, playing soccer and frisbee, and taking pictures in the Altstadt. Overall, it was relaxing and fun.
This week we have our last couple of classes, a trip to Hallstatt, and our final group party. The party is this Thursday and it's going to be all you can eat and drink. The trip to Hallstatt is going to be pretty amazing. We are going to see a lot of sites including churches, ice caves, and we even get to ride on a summer louge. I'm looking forward to being able to go.
I'm going to get going for now, but I'll try to write again soon with any new and interesting stories. Talk to you all again soon.
This weekend ended up being a lot of fun for me. Friday was spent in Munich again, only this time I went there with JJ. We ended up having a great day. We even found two random people to ride with us on our group ticket, which means that we got to travel to Munich and back and use the subways for 8,50. I spent 3,00 on food and another 2,00 on a drink, which means that I spent 13,50 for the entire day, and was still able to have a blast.
The rest of the weekend was spent getting homework done, playing soccer and frisbee, and taking pictures in the Altstadt. Overall, it was relaxing and fun.
This week we have our last couple of classes, a trip to Hallstatt, and our final group party. The party is this Thursday and it's going to be all you can eat and drink. The trip to Hallstatt is going to be pretty amazing. We are going to see a lot of sites including churches, ice caves, and we even get to ride on a summer louge. I'm looking forward to being able to go.
I'm going to get going for now, but I'll try to write again soon with any new and interesting stories. Talk to you all again soon.
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Finally have some time to write!
I just want to express how excited I am to finally be able to write on here. It has been so long that I actually have to read the last few posts so that I know what I need to talk about. I'll start with the notes that I made for myself a couple of posts ago.
I was finally able to get out and pick up some postcards from the Altstadt and I sent out the first round of them while I was in Vienna. I tried to send one to everyone that I could, but chances are that if you didn't get one I didn't have your address. I have plenty more postcards though, and I'm looking to send some more in the near future. If you feel like leaving your address, please send it to me in an email and please do not leave it in a comment. You can never be sure who might stumble upon this page.
Let's see, note #2 that I left myself was about presentations that all of us had to do while we were in Vienna. Each student here got to choose a landmark (wow, I haven't been able to remember that word in weeks. I have only been able to call them "sightseeing attractions") and we had to give a short presentation during our tour of the city. I had Stephansdom, which is a rather large, Gothic-style cathedral in the center of Vienna. I received an abundant amount of compliments when I was finished, and I even got a 98% on the presentation. I was just glad that I was able to memorize enough information to speak for 5 minutes without using my notes once, and that I only forgot to mention one or two pieces of information that I had planned to.
The weekend trips I will talk about a little bit later in this post.
We had a party for the 40th anniversary of the program two Tuesdays ago. It ended up being a ton of fun. There were past participants ranging from last year to 30 or so years ago, and past program directors also came into town for the occasion. We all met at a rather nice restaurant on the busiest street in Salzburg and had a delicious dinner along with short speeches given by our program director, past program directors, and the provost of OU, Kathy Krendl. I kind of felt bad for KK, because she didn't speak any German and the entire program, aside from her speech, was held in German. I was excited because I was able to follow along with everything that was being said and I even understood 99% of the jokes that were made during the speeches. It's incredibly fun to start to develop a sense of humor in another language.
The afternoon after the 40th anniversary party the entire group of us went to the Salzuburg zoo, which is located right next to Schloss Hellbrunn (the castle with all of the fountains and gardens). I don't have much to say about that, other than it was a beautiful day and it was a nice way to pass a few hours. However, the Cleveland zoo is much bigger and has more to see than this zoo, so I wasn't overly impressed by much here. We had to give short presentations about an animal, but those weren't graded at all. They were just a way to justify having OU pay for a trip to the zoo.
The day after the zoo we took our Trip to Vienna. It was quite the long weekend, but I don't have too much time to write about the whole thing here. I will try to cover as much as I can in as few words possible. The trip to Vienna wasn't too bad of a bus ride. I think that it lasted between 5 and 6 hours with rest stops and such. We stopped off at Mauthausen on the way, which was a concentration camp in WWII. The camp itself was a work camp, and not an execution camp. Regardless, thousands upon thousands of people died there. It was eerie to be there, but we were also able to learn quite a bit from our tour guide (who all of the girls had a huge crush on). After our stop at the camp we continued on to Vienna. The weekend was spent mostly of touring in large and small groups. Everyone gave their presentations when we were in the large group, and when we were in smaller groups we were allowed to do what we wanted. We saw so many landmarks there that it is hard to keep them all straight. It will probably be easier to just show everyone pictures and explain them when I am back in Ohio. When I was with smaller groups of people I visited the music museum, a history of soccer exhibition, the Donauinsel, and various other parks around the city. There really was an overly abundant amount to do in Vienna, and we did so much in a large group that we really just wanted to relax when we split into our smaller groups. The time that we spent in Vienna was pleasant and fun, but Sunday it had to come to an end. We hopped back on our bus to Salzburg and started back home. On the way we made two stops. One stop was at this beautiful monastery, and our second stop was at a tiny city that was nestled in the hills nearby the monastery (I forget the name of the city, but I can look it up later).
Last week was the shortest week of the quarter for us. They give you one long weekend during this trip so that everyone has a chance to travel. It really messes with your school schedule though, since the week really flew by. Monday and Tuesday were uneventful, but Wednesday was quite fun. We took a group trip in the evening to a salt mine in the city of Hallein. They have a rather large portion of the mine that you can take a tour of when you go. When you get there, they give you these white suits to wear (they make everyone there look a little bit like oompa-loompas) so that your clothes don't get destroyed in the mine. Once everyone is dressed and ready to go you ride a miniature train deep into the mines and start your tour. The tour guide not only gives you information, but she also uses projectors at various points to play movies that were corny, but funny. They followed the story of the Archbishop who ordered the mines to be dug. Even though the movies were corny, they were interesting because they were dubbed in English, but then still had German subtitles. It was fun to see how you would express certain ideas in German while being able to hear the English (since usually you hear the German, but don't think about it too much and wind up just reading the English subtitles). The mines are quite large, and you even cross over the border into Germany at one point during the trip. To move between the different levels of the mine there are these huge wooden chutes that you get to slide down, and one room even requires you ride in a boat across a chamber that has about 2-3 meters of standing water. The entire trip was both interesting and fun. The only bad part was that the other group that we were with inside the mines were some of the rudest people that I have ever encountered, but that's all that I would really like to say about them at the moment.
So this brings us all of the way up to my trip to Italy that I took this weekend with Anna and Learose. I'm slowly running out of time still, but I do want to say that I had an awesome, yet relaxing, time while we were there. We were able to see quite a large chunk of the city including churches, cafes, an aquarium, a synagogue, a few parks, a castle, a tropical bird exhibit, a rock beach, and much much more. I'm almost out of time, so I'm just going to give a quick rundown of everything that we did.
Thursday:
We searched for out hostel when we got there for about 2 hours, only to find that it was about a 2 minute walk from the train station. While we were searching, we were able to explore one of the main streets along the coast and were able to pick out some places to go see later on in the day. We visited the aquarium, and then explored the heart of the city during the evening/night. We were able to find a restaurant with amazing food and decent prices, and later we also spent a few hours in an outdoor cafe/bar drinking wine and relaxing.
Friday:
We got up and tried to find bus passes, which turned out to be an adventure in itself. We finally had success though, and we took the bus out to Castello Miramere (I hope that I spelled that correctly). We ended up spending almost the entire day at the castle and its surrounding park. We had a great time just trying to explore all of the different paths in the park to try to see what we could find. We ended up finding a tropical bird exhibit in the park, which turned out to be pretty fun. The castle itself was amazing to be able to walk through, and I saw some of the most intricate woodwork that I have ever seen in my life there. All of the walls, ceilings, tables, chairs, etc. were ornately decorated with woodwork. After our visit to the castle, we wound up being quite exhausted. We headed back to the hostel, took a nap, and then went out again for dinner and wine in the evening.
Saturday:
We originally wanted to take a trip to Slovenia, but we had a hell of a time trying to find out where to buy bus tickets or even trying to find the bus schedule. Instead, we went to the "beach." Most of the coast in Trieste is rock, but they have this really nice brick walkway that runs along the coast, and eventually there is a small beach-like area that you can get to. Most of the people there were on the walkway though, so the three of us changed into our swimsuits and hung out on the walkway for awhile, while we worked on our wonderful tans. After the "beach," we went back into the city and tried to see everything that we possibly could. Unfortunately, we could only see churches from the outside because 5 o'clock mass was taking place, and for some reason a lot of the other buildings were getting ready to close. We still had a blast trying to explore though, and we were able to see everything that we wanted to. At night (you guessed it) we went out for dinner and wine. Before we went out to a cafe/bar we sat on the pier and had a couple of bottles of wine while we watched the sunset. It was a little on the cloudy side, but you could still kind of see some color peeking out of the sky. We made it back to our hostel safe and sound and went to sleep. We got up the next morning, checked out, took the train home, and now I'm here.
This week is going to continue to be crazy. I have a presentation to give tomorrow and a project due Thursday. Both are going to take some time to finish, but I think that after I get these two things done the rest of this quarter will be amazingly smooth and free of all worries. I do have to leave for class in a few minutes though, and I am still here in my pajamas and I haven't eaten. So, I think that I am going to wrap this up for now. Hopefully, I will be able to come up with more fun things to write about soon! Thanks for reading all of this, and sorry that it was so long. This post really could have been at least triple this length if I would have let it though. Talk to you all again soon.
Ciao!
***There are new photos on my site and on the OU site too***
I was finally able to get out and pick up some postcards from the Altstadt and I sent out the first round of them while I was in Vienna. I tried to send one to everyone that I could, but chances are that if you didn't get one I didn't have your address. I have plenty more postcards though, and I'm looking to send some more in the near future. If you feel like leaving your address, please send it to me in an email and please do not leave it in a comment. You can never be sure who might stumble upon this page.
Let's see, note #2 that I left myself was about presentations that all of us had to do while we were in Vienna. Each student here got to choose a landmark (wow, I haven't been able to remember that word in weeks. I have only been able to call them "sightseeing attractions") and we had to give a short presentation during our tour of the city. I had Stephansdom, which is a rather large, Gothic-style cathedral in the center of Vienna. I received an abundant amount of compliments when I was finished, and I even got a 98% on the presentation. I was just glad that I was able to memorize enough information to speak for 5 minutes without using my notes once, and that I only forgot to mention one or two pieces of information that I had planned to.
The weekend trips I will talk about a little bit later in this post.
We had a party for the 40th anniversary of the program two Tuesdays ago. It ended up being a ton of fun. There were past participants ranging from last year to 30 or so years ago, and past program directors also came into town for the occasion. We all met at a rather nice restaurant on the busiest street in Salzburg and had a delicious dinner along with short speeches given by our program director, past program directors, and the provost of OU, Kathy Krendl. I kind of felt bad for KK, because she didn't speak any German and the entire program, aside from her speech, was held in German. I was excited because I was able to follow along with everything that was being said and I even understood 99% of the jokes that were made during the speeches. It's incredibly fun to start to develop a sense of humor in another language.
The afternoon after the 40th anniversary party the entire group of us went to the Salzuburg zoo, which is located right next to Schloss Hellbrunn (the castle with all of the fountains and gardens). I don't have much to say about that, other than it was a beautiful day and it was a nice way to pass a few hours. However, the Cleveland zoo is much bigger and has more to see than this zoo, so I wasn't overly impressed by much here. We had to give short presentations about an animal, but those weren't graded at all. They were just a way to justify having OU pay for a trip to the zoo.
The day after the zoo we took our Trip to Vienna. It was quite the long weekend, but I don't have too much time to write about the whole thing here. I will try to cover as much as I can in as few words possible. The trip to Vienna wasn't too bad of a bus ride. I think that it lasted between 5 and 6 hours with rest stops and such. We stopped off at Mauthausen on the way, which was a concentration camp in WWII. The camp itself was a work camp, and not an execution camp. Regardless, thousands upon thousands of people died there. It was eerie to be there, but we were also able to learn quite a bit from our tour guide (who all of the girls had a huge crush on). After our stop at the camp we continued on to Vienna. The weekend was spent mostly of touring in large and small groups. Everyone gave their presentations when we were in the large group, and when we were in smaller groups we were allowed to do what we wanted. We saw so many landmarks there that it is hard to keep them all straight. It will probably be easier to just show everyone pictures and explain them when I am back in Ohio. When I was with smaller groups of people I visited the music museum, a history of soccer exhibition, the Donauinsel, and various other parks around the city. There really was an overly abundant amount to do in Vienna, and we did so much in a large group that we really just wanted to relax when we split into our smaller groups. The time that we spent in Vienna was pleasant and fun, but Sunday it had to come to an end. We hopped back on our bus to Salzburg and started back home. On the way we made two stops. One stop was at this beautiful monastery, and our second stop was at a tiny city that was nestled in the hills nearby the monastery (I forget the name of the city, but I can look it up later).
Last week was the shortest week of the quarter for us. They give you one long weekend during this trip so that everyone has a chance to travel. It really messes with your school schedule though, since the week really flew by. Monday and Tuesday were uneventful, but Wednesday was quite fun. We took a group trip in the evening to a salt mine in the city of Hallein. They have a rather large portion of the mine that you can take a tour of when you go. When you get there, they give you these white suits to wear (they make everyone there look a little bit like oompa-loompas) so that your clothes don't get destroyed in the mine. Once everyone is dressed and ready to go you ride a miniature train deep into the mines and start your tour. The tour guide not only gives you information, but she also uses projectors at various points to play movies that were corny, but funny. They followed the story of the Archbishop who ordered the mines to be dug. Even though the movies were corny, they were interesting because they were dubbed in English, but then still had German subtitles. It was fun to see how you would express certain ideas in German while being able to hear the English (since usually you hear the German, but don't think about it too much and wind up just reading the English subtitles). The mines are quite large, and you even cross over the border into Germany at one point during the trip. To move between the different levels of the mine there are these huge wooden chutes that you get to slide down, and one room even requires you ride in a boat across a chamber that has about 2-3 meters of standing water. The entire trip was both interesting and fun. The only bad part was that the other group that we were with inside the mines were some of the rudest people that I have ever encountered, but that's all that I would really like to say about them at the moment.
So this brings us all of the way up to my trip to Italy that I took this weekend with Anna and Learose. I'm slowly running out of time still, but I do want to say that I had an awesome, yet relaxing, time while we were there. We were able to see quite a large chunk of the city including churches, cafes, an aquarium, a synagogue, a few parks, a castle, a tropical bird exhibit, a rock beach, and much much more. I'm almost out of time, so I'm just going to give a quick rundown of everything that we did.
Thursday:
We searched for out hostel when we got there for about 2 hours, only to find that it was about a 2 minute walk from the train station. While we were searching, we were able to explore one of the main streets along the coast and were able to pick out some places to go see later on in the day. We visited the aquarium, and then explored the heart of the city during the evening/night. We were able to find a restaurant with amazing food and decent prices, and later we also spent a few hours in an outdoor cafe/bar drinking wine and relaxing.
Friday:
We got up and tried to find bus passes, which turned out to be an adventure in itself. We finally had success though, and we took the bus out to Castello Miramere (I hope that I spelled that correctly). We ended up spending almost the entire day at the castle and its surrounding park. We had a great time just trying to explore all of the different paths in the park to try to see what we could find. We ended up finding a tropical bird exhibit in the park, which turned out to be pretty fun. The castle itself was amazing to be able to walk through, and I saw some of the most intricate woodwork that I have ever seen in my life there. All of the walls, ceilings, tables, chairs, etc. were ornately decorated with woodwork. After our visit to the castle, we wound up being quite exhausted. We headed back to the hostel, took a nap, and then went out again for dinner and wine in the evening.
Saturday:
We originally wanted to take a trip to Slovenia, but we had a hell of a time trying to find out where to buy bus tickets or even trying to find the bus schedule. Instead, we went to the "beach." Most of the coast in Trieste is rock, but they have this really nice brick walkway that runs along the coast, and eventually there is a small beach-like area that you can get to. Most of the people there were on the walkway though, so the three of us changed into our swimsuits and hung out on the walkway for awhile, while we worked on our wonderful tans. After the "beach," we went back into the city and tried to see everything that we possibly could. Unfortunately, we could only see churches from the outside because 5 o'clock mass was taking place, and for some reason a lot of the other buildings were getting ready to close. We still had a blast trying to explore though, and we were able to see everything that we wanted to. At night (you guessed it) we went out for dinner and wine. Before we went out to a cafe/bar we sat on the pier and had a couple of bottles of wine while we watched the sunset. It was a little on the cloudy side, but you could still kind of see some color peeking out of the sky. We made it back to our hostel safe and sound and went to sleep. We got up the next morning, checked out, took the train home, and now I'm here.
This week is going to continue to be crazy. I have a presentation to give tomorrow and a project due Thursday. Both are going to take some time to finish, but I think that after I get these two things done the rest of this quarter will be amazingly smooth and free of all worries. I do have to leave for class in a few minutes though, and I am still here in my pajamas and I haven't eaten. So, I think that I am going to wrap this up for now. Hopefully, I will be able to come up with more fun things to write about soon! Thanks for reading all of this, and sorry that it was so long. This post really could have been at least triple this length if I would have let it though. Talk to you all again soon.
Ciao!
***There are new photos on my site and on the OU site too***
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Back from Italy
I made it back safe and sound. Unfortunately, I have a bunch of work that I have to do tonight since I didn't get as much done over the weekend as I would have like to. The good news is that I am adding new photos as I type this. Hopefully I will have a little bit of extra time tonight so that I can make an actual post on here rather than just another short one of these. Talk to you all soon.
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Next post soon...I hope
Hello everyone. I am alive still. Unfortunately, I am not sure when the next time that I will have enough time to make a longer post on here will be. Tonight I am going to be overly busy with homework and such, but I am hoping to get on here tomorrow night and post. If not, I won't be able to post again until Sunday at the very earliest, since I will be in Italy until then. I can share that I was able to buy my ticket and a round-trip ticket with seats reserved only ended up costing 100,20 Euro. I was extremely excited about that price.
I have to run off to class for now. Like I said though, I will try to update this tomorrow evening. If I end up finishing up work early tonight, I might try to get on here as well. Talk to you soon, I hope.
I have to run off to class for now. Like I said though, I will try to update this tomorrow evening. If I end up finishing up work early tonight, I might try to get on here as well. Talk to you soon, I hope.
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Leaving on a jetplane...or a bus
That's right! Tomorrow we are traveling to Vienna, so I will not be able to talk with anyone until next week at the earliest. I'll be thinking about all of you and I can't wait to talk to write again and talk to you when I get back. I love all of you.
I really wanted to write a larger post, because I forgot to earlier today, but I ended up having way more work than I thought that I did tonight. It was my own fault though, because I didn't do too much work last night. I just need to make some mental notes for the next time that I post:
Postcards
Referate
Weekend Trips
40th Anniversary Party
Zoo
I'll be sure to write again as soon as I can. Talk to you all later!
I really wanted to write a larger post, because I forgot to earlier today, but I ended up having way more work than I thought that I did tonight. It was my own fault though, because I didn't do too much work last night. I just need to make some mental notes for the next time that I post:
Postcards
Referate
Weekend Trips
40th Anniversary Party
Zoo
I'll be sure to write again as soon as I can. Talk to you all later!
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Happy Mother's Day!
I just wanted to hop on here really quickly and wish everyone a happy mother's day. I'm really bummed out that I can't see everyone today, but I'll be home soon and then I can make my visits. This weekend has not been as action packed as the past few weeks have been. Aside from going to Munich it has been pretty calm here, although I have been having a funky time trying to fall asleep the last couple of nights. Last night I did hang out with a former OU student who is here for the 40th anniversary party on Tuesday and Learose. She is extremely nice and fun to be around. Today she, Learose, and I went around the city for a little while. First, we tried to go to the old bakery, but they are closed on Sunday. Then we went to a hotel which has a cafe on the roof for lunch. Unfortunately, they were not serving normal food today since it was mother's day. The only thing that they had was a 23 Euro breakfast buffet which we politely chose to pass on. Finally, we ended up going to a pizza place that is built into the side of one of the mountains in the Altstadt, and after we ate lunch we decided to get some delicious ice cream on the way back to the bus stop. Other than that, nothing else exciting happened. More former students will be arriving in town soon. The party on Tuesday seems like it is going to be a blast, and we even have an administrator from OU who is coming to visit for the night.
Unfortunately, I have a ton of work that I should be doing, but I really haven't felt like doing much this weekend. Luckily, tomorrow is a holiday in Austria so we do not have class. Instead, we are going to a museum which has buildings that represent the different time periods in Austria. If you have seen South Park recently it is going to be like the episode where they go to the pioneer village, only this will actually be interesting. If I do a little bit of work tonight I should be fine because we will also have a ton of time to get work done tomorrow.
I almost forgot to say that next weekend we are going to Vienna. In fact, this weekend is only a two day school week, but I still am going to have a ton of stuff that is due coming up in the near future. The trip should be fun, since it is a 4 day trip. Then, next weekend we have a 4 day weekend to travel on our own. I still don't know where I will be going to, but I have to make up my mind very soon so that I can make plans and such.
That's all I have for now. I miss and love all of you terribly. I don't want this trip to end, but at the same time I am really looking forward to being at home again so that I can see all of you again. I'm sure that I'll be able to write again in the near future.
Unfortunately, I have a ton of work that I should be doing, but I really haven't felt like doing much this weekend. Luckily, tomorrow is a holiday in Austria so we do not have class. Instead, we are going to a museum which has buildings that represent the different time periods in Austria. If you have seen South Park recently it is going to be like the episode where they go to the pioneer village, only this will actually be interesting. If I do a little bit of work tonight I should be fine because we will also have a ton of time to get work done tomorrow.
I almost forgot to say that next weekend we are going to Vienna. In fact, this weekend is only a two day school week, but I still am going to have a ton of stuff that is due coming up in the near future. The trip should be fun, since it is a 4 day trip. Then, next weekend we have a 4 day weekend to travel on our own. I still don't know where I will be going to, but I have to make up my mind very soon so that I can make plans and such.
That's all I have for now. I miss and love all of you terribly. I don't want this trip to end, but at the same time I am really looking forward to being at home again so that I can see all of you again. I'm sure that I'll be able to write again in the near future.
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